9th - F451 Vocab - List 1

9th - F451 Vocab - List 1

Venomous

• (ven-uh-muhs) - poisonous; full of or containing something resembling or suggesting poison in its effect

• adjective

• derivatives: venom, venomously

• “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history” (3).

Igniter

• (ig-nahy-ter) - a person or thing that kindles or sets fires

• noun

• derivatives: ignite

• “[H]e flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black” (3).

Gorging

• (gawrj-ng) - to stuff with food; to swallow, especially greedily

• verb

• derivatives: gorge, gorged

• “[H]e flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black” (3).

Luxuriously

• (luhg-zhoor-ee-uhs-lee) - given to pleasure, especially of the senses;conducive to free or habitual indulgence in or enjoyment of comforts and pleasures in addition to those necessary for a reasonable standard of well-being

• adverb

• derivatives: luxurious, luxury

• “[H]e showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole” (4).

Compressed

• (kuhm-prest) - pressed into less space; condensed; flattened by or as if by pressure

• derivatives: to compress

• “Or was the atmosphere compressed merely by someone standing very quietly there,waiting?” (5).

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Hysterical

• (hi-ster-i-kuhl) - uncontrollably emotional; of, pertaining to, or characterized by an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.

• adjective

• derivatives: hysterically, hysteria

• “It was not the hysterical light of electricity but—what? But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle” (7).

Illumination

• (ih-loo-muh-ney-shuhn) - the act or instance of supplying or brightening with light or making lucid or clear

• noun

• derivatives:to illuminate

• “[H]is mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them” (7).

Pedestrian

• (puh-des-tree-uhn) - a person who goes or travels on foot; walker

• noun

• derivatives: pedestrians

• “It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer” (9).

Marionette

• (mar-ee-uh-net) - a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached toits jointed limbs

• noun

• derivatives: marionettes

• “[S]he was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began” (11).

Pulverized

• (puhl-vuh-rahyz) - to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding

  
  

• verb

• derivatives: pulverize, pulverizing

• “He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow” (14).

Fill in the Blank

Montag imagines that the bombers have _____ the stars, reducing them to dust.

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Montag is a _____. He walks home from the subway.

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The television family seems _____ in comparison to those Montag knows in real life. They laugh one moment and cry the next at the slightest provocation.

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Montag's _____ shower is an indulgence in comfort beyond those necessary for reasonable well-being.

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Montag flicks the _____ to set the house on fire.

Multiple Choice

a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached toits jointed limbs

• marionette

• pulverized

• pedestrian

• luxuriously

Multiple Choice

the act or instance of supplying or brightening with light or making lucid or clear

• illumination

• compressed

• hysterical

• pedestrian

Multiple Choice

pressed into less space; condensed; flattened by or as if by pressure

• compressed

• hysterical

• illumination

• pedestrian

Multiple Choice

to stuff with food; to swallow, especially greedily

• gorging

• luxuriously

• igniter

• venomous

Multiple Choice

poisonous; full of or containing something resembling or suggesting poison in its effect

• venomous

• igniter

• gorging

• luxuriously